Andrew T. Smith, who is a President’s Professor, Parents Association Professor and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist in the School of Life Sciences, is a conservation biologist whose research includes the behavioral ecology, effects of habitat fragmentation and ecosystem services provided by small mammals. The American Society of Mammologists presented him its 2015 Aldo Leopold Conservation Award.

Sheldon Simon has been a faculty member of the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU for 43 years. He is a specialist on Asian international politics and U.S. national security and is the author or editor of 10 books and 200 scholarly articles and book chapters in those fields.

Carl Silver is an Emeritus Professor of surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and clinical professor of surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, where he mentors students. Since his retirement from active practice in 2005, he has published more than 100 scientific papers, and has consistently contributed book reviews and essays to Emeritus Voices.

Stephen Siek currently serves on the Advisory Board for Emeritus Voices and frequently teaches for ASU's Osher Institute. An Emeritus Professor at Wittenberg University in Ohio, he served for many years as a professor of piano and musicology, and has published widely in the field of music.

Donald K. Sharpes is a former research associate at Stanford University and director of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. He has taught at seven universities, including Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Weber State and ASU. He has authored 18 books and more than 240 articles in the social and behavioral sciences, humanities and teacher education.

Following 24 years at ASU, Richard Satterlie moved to the Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has published five novels and a poetry collection. He maintains an active research program in neural control of locomotion in marine invertebrates.

Marta E. Sánchez is an Emeritus Professor at ASU (2004–2014) and the University of California, San Diego (1977–2004). She is the author of “Contemporary Chicana Poetry” (University of California Press, 1985), “Shakin’ Up Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives” (University of Texas Press, 2005) and “A Translational Turn: Latinx Literature into the Mainstream” (University of Pittsburgh, 2019).

Jeremy Rowe collects, researches and writes about 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. He serves as president of the Daguerreian Society and as chairman of the board of Nagrin Theater, Film & Dance Foundation, Inc. He is also a member of the boards of the Ephemera Society of America, INFOCUS—the Phoenix Art Museum/Center for Creative Photography collaboration, and the National Stereoscopic Association. He is currently a senior research scientist at New York University.

John Risseeuw was recruited in the early 1970s from the University of Wisconsin by the Department of Art at ASU. His assignment was to establish a program in paper making and in fine hand–printing. Several of his students have become nationally famous for their work.

John Reich retired in 2008 after 41 years with the Department of Psychology at ASU. His specialty is social psychology, focusing on the analysis of personal and social factors in social interactions. He has published more than 100 research articles and 6 books.

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